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cybergoths @cybergoths@dice.camp · 2 months ago

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The setting - Orbital 2100 - is earlier than Zozer's #Hostile and feels very different. I've hoping to catch the vibe from the 2010 movie if I run this. I reviewed the setting earlier in the year: https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2024/02/first-impressions-orbital-2100-cepheus.html

#Cepheus #travellerrpg #ttrpg

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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 @nyrath@spacey.space · 2 months ago

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@cybergoths

I've never played it as an TTRPG. But the space science in it's background is amazingly accurate. I was impressed.

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cybergoths @cybergoths@dice.camp · 2 months ago

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@nyrath I suspect you’ve effectively played it as a TTRPG, as Cepheus/Hostile is effectively the Mongoose Traveller 1e SRD built as an independent game. I do love the effort that’s gone into the background material; it feels very different.

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias@historians.social · 2 months ago

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What’s the ship design look like? Is this a crunchy “this actually feels like baby-level rocket science” kind of system or a “you have 100 spaces to fill with components and we handwave mass/density” kind of system?
@nyrath

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Thanasis Kinias @tkinias@historians.social · 2 months ago

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I’ve been looking for *years* for an open system that I can tweak for my own settings, that’s fairly engineering-heavy but doesn’t require me to do actual aerospace engineering. My attempts to come up with my own back in the day kept foundering on “crap, I need to learn more engineering to make sense of these equations”...
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cybergoths @cybergoths@dice.camp · 2 months ago

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I suspect @nyrath probably has a better idea of how realistic the game is but the design sequences are very Traveller in style. You select a hull, then fit an NTR or NPD, powerplant, flare dampers. Radiators and drive shielding are assumed part of the DSV powerplant tonnage. Then you add the various other components.

NTRs are assumed to thrust to a max velocity and then coast, NPDs can burn and turn (so are much faster) but they're cutting edge and optional.

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